CVE-2008-5179 — Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), Office Communicator, and Windows Live Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) receiver report packet

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Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), Office Communicator, and Windows Live Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) receiver report packet

Published Nov 20, 2008

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 16.44%

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), Office Communicator, and Windows Live Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) receiver report packet.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

16.44% 0.16436

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.16436

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	16.44% (0.16436)	96.89th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	16.44% (0.16436)	96.57th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	30.15% (0.30148)	96.27th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	48.62% (0.48618)	96.72th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	30.15% (0.30148)	96.28th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Feb 9, 2025	8.95% (0.08948)	94.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 11, 2023	6.48% (0.06477)	92.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	8.00% (0.07996)	93.22th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	13.53% (0.13525)	95.77th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	13.53% (0.13525)	95.40th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 20, 2022	13.53% (0.13525)	90.76th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	16.23% (0.16233)	92.75th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32341
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021294
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.voipshield.com/research-details.php?id=132
x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46670
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32341		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021294		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.voipshield.com/research-details.php?id=132		x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46670		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 20, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Nov 20, 2008

Link CVE-2008-5179

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-5179

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-5179